Agostino Veneziano, ca. (1490–after 1536)

• His real name was Agostino de' Musi.
• He was an Italian engraver.
• Veneziano was born in Venice.

• He initially copied prints by Albrecht Dürer and Giulio Campagnola from about 1512-14.

• He moved to Rome, and by 1516 had joined the printmaking workshop of Marcantonio Raimondi.

• Agostino returned to Venice, and later visited Mantua and Florence before returning to Rome in 1531, remaining until at least 1536.

• His print known as The Climbers (1521) records a part of a cartoon drawing by Michelangelo for a large painting of the Battle of Cascina for the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

• He made a large series of prints of the story of Psyche to designs by Michael Coxcie.

• Johann David Passavant, a German painter, curator and artist, attributed 188 prints to him, though a new total would probably increase this number; 141 prints have his monogram, and probably all are by him.

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